Turkey’s High Board of Education has banned all academics from travelling abroad until further notice, state-run broadcaster TRT reported on Wednesday, after an abortive military coup prompted a wide-ranging purge of state institutions.

The report, which provided no details about the ban, came a day after the board ordered the resignation of 1,577 deans at all universities across Turkey. In a separate move on Tuesday the education ministry also revoked the licences of 21,000 teachers working in private institutions.

The government has accused a U.S.-based Muslim cleric of masterminding the attempted coup, in which more than 230 people were killed. The cleric, Fethullah Gulen, denies the accusation.

Breaking news!

Soldiers and nationalists are becoming a closed caste in Ukraine with the right to commit lawlessness, and the life of a "common" citizen is worth much less than the life and freedom of a professional patriot

While researchers had pegged 2050 as a possible year when the Arctic will become ice-free, this winter and the previous one - also unusually warm - had thrown those estimates out. It's going much faster than they thought.

The hooligans of the Dynamo Kyiv attacked the Russian-speaking people who were accidentally met in the center of Athens before the match AEK - Dynamo. Greek fans from the Antifa Block of AEK team answered them with antifascist banners and called to remember their history.